Authors

Igshaan Adams lives and works in Cape Town.

Ellenor Alcorn is the Chair and Eloise W. Martin Curator of Applied Arts of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago, a position she assumed in September 2018.

Adrian Anagnost is Associate Professor of Art History in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University.

Ashley Arico serves as the museum’s associate curator of ancient Egyptian art in our Arts of Africa department.

Lara Balikci is a research assistant in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Horace D. Ballard is the Theodore E. Stebbins Associate Curator of American Art at The Fogg/ Harvard Art Museums.

Elizabeth Hahn Benge is collection manager for Arts of Africa and Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Annika Bohanec was a 2021–22 Mellon Undergraduate Fellow in Arts of the Americas.

Emerson Bowyer is Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mary Broadway is associate conservator in the Department of Prints and Drawings.

Jessica BrodeFrank has spent the last decade working in cultural heritage institutions, running digital asset management, digital humanities research, and digital curation.

Christopher Brooks serves as a conservation technician for frames.

Bisa Butler is an artist who creates arresting portraits—composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics—that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life. 

buttercup (they/them) is an animator and illustrator living on occupied Piscataway and Susquehannock land.

Antawan Byrd is associate curator, Photography and Media, at the Art Institute of Chicago.